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just congratulations to everybody there in pasadena. we're all rooting for you and we'll be watching curiosity in the coming months. thank you. >> thank you. for the team i appreciate it, and for the country i appreciate it. >> that's right. well put. >>> coming up, as speculation heats up over mitt romney's choice for a running mate we may have gotten a pretty big clue. find whoout who is speaking at republican convention. today the republican says he's tripling down on his comments. so we see people suffering from dry mouth more so. we may see more cavities, bad breath, oral irritation. a dry mouth sufferer doesn't have to suffer. i would recommend biotene. the enzymes in biotene products help supplement enzymes that are naturally in saliva. biotene helps moisten those areas that have become dry. those that are suffering can certainly benefit from biotene. who dreamed she could fly. like others who braved the sky before her, it took a mighty machine, and plain old ingenuity to go where no fifth grader had gone before. ♪ and she flew
just congratulations to everybody there in pasadena. we're all rooting for you and we'll be watching curiosity in the coming months. thank you. >> thank you. for the team i appreciate it, and for the country i appreciate it. >> that's right. well put. >>> coming up, as speculation heats up over mitt romney's choice for a running mate we may have gotten a pretty big clue. find whoout who is speaking at republican convention. today the republican says he's tripling down on...
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[cheers] jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. those men and women helped guide the curiosity rover as they call it to a safe touchdown on the surface of mars. remembers said t would not be easy to stick that landing. rover had 7 minutes to slow down to 13,000 miles an hour to zero that's what they call seven minutes of terror. satellite snapped this photo of curiosity while it was landing. you can seat parachute there. now, rover gets to work. it has a powerful robotic arm to pick up and analyze martian rocks they tell us. plus a scoop for soil samples and a rock zapping laser. whatever that is. earlier today on "studio b," a lead mechanical engineer for that risky landing says curiosity's mission was very much worth the estimated 2.5 billion-dollar price tag. >> exploration is a fund meantly human thing and more importantly it's a fundamentally american thing. and $7 for every man woman and child. it's the price of a move and a move i think the american people want to see. >> shepard: the success or failure of curiosity could se
[cheers] jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. those men and women helped guide the curiosity rover as they call it to a safe touchdown on the surface of mars. remembers said t would not be easy to stick that landing. rover had 7 minutes to slow down to 13,000 miles an hour to zero that's what they call seven minutes of terror. satellite snapped this photo of curiosity while it was landing. you can seat parachute there. now, rover gets to work. it has a powerful robotic arm to pick up and...
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adam housley is live at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california. not a bad place to be on a day like this. where does the rover go from here, adam. >> reporter: big night here in pasadena last night, a big day again today. we had our first images last night, a wide angle, low resolution, almost like a security camera set up that gave us a first view of mars. we expect new pictures literally in the next ten or 15 minutes, nasa will release some of those. they sent a one-ton small suv size craft 154 million miles away over 8 months. they slowed it down 60 feet above the ground, set it down with a crane next to a mountain the size of mount rainier inside a crater. take a listen to what they believe is going to happen in the next few weeks. >> in the days, years, weeks to come there is going to be enormous number of images, incredible images, color images, real color this time too, so kind of like the human eye will see, which will be really exciting. >> reporter: once again those pictures last night were exciting here. scientists are buzzing as they c
adam housley is live at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california. not a bad place to be on a day like this. where does the rover go from here, adam. >> reporter: big night here in pasadena last night, a big day again today. we had our first images last night, a wide angle, low resolution, almost like a security camera set up that gave us a first view of mars. we expect new pictures literally in the next ten or 15 minutes, nasa will release some of those. they sent a...
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first, take a look at these pictures from pasadena, california last night. how fantastic. [ cheering ] >> jennifer: so great that the american ingenuity of nasa scientists got us to mars. it makes me proud to be an american. i can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. these scientists are american heroes. and then there was another american hero this weekend. brian murphy. brian murphy is the police officer who protected the sikh community in wisconsin during that awful tragedy despite being ambushed, despite taking nine bullets, he waved off medical attention so that the victims inside could get help instead. he is in critical condition in a local hospital, and he is an american hero. the nasa scientists and officer murphy represent the best of america. and then there's the other end of the spectrum, an american scoundrel who reared her head this weekend too i refuse to give her publicity. we'll call this venomous person, she who shall not be named. she said this about public employees. >> government jobs. we're for losing governmen
first, take a look at these pictures from pasadena, california last night. how fantastic. [ cheering ] >> jennifer: so great that the american ingenuity of nasa scientists got us to mars. it makes me proud to be an american. i can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. these scientists are american heroes. and then there was another american hero this weekend. brian murphy. brian murphy is the police officer who protected the sikh community in wisconsin during that...
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lawmaker admits he was drinking while operating a 26-foot speed boat that crashed into another boat in pasadena wednesday night. he had been told his blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit. he and several others, including children were hurt in the collision. investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the crash. by the way, it is illegal to drive drunk on maryland water ways. >>> calling it quits, lance armstrong is dropping his fight against doping allegations. sarah simmons is back to talk more about that. sarah, this was unexpected. we didn't think lance was going to bail out and not even fight it. >> apparently there are others who are going to fight it perhaps. this morning the international cycling agency is demanding the u.s. anti-doping agency explain why he should lose his title. take a listen. [ speaking foreign language ] >> okay. clearly we are having some issue there with the story. but here's what we know so far. the usada is imposing a lifetime ban from any sport which recognizing the world anti-doping code and under this decision, armstrong may l
lawmaker admits he was drinking while operating a 26-foot speed boat that crashed into another boat in pasadena wednesday night. he had been told his blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit. he and several others, including children were hurt in the collision. investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the crash. by the way, it is illegal to drive drunk on maryland water ways. >>> calling it quits, lance armstrong is dropping his fight against doping...
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let me point out, let's take the example of the jet propulsion lab in pasadena, california. the high school which is right next to the lab is an excellent school. everybody wants top send their kids there. the needle schools that feed that high school are also excellent because there are scientists and engineers that go to the high school. very good teachers want to teach there. furthermore, the area around it is a lovely neighborhood where people want to live. these are middle class people with jobs. and all this, the economy there, is stimulated by a very small investment. in space exploration. >> bill, our next guest will argue -- >> economic benefits. just right there. >> our next guest argue you are right about everything you are saying it is ever, it is that the private sector could do it as well and for a lot less money. >> no. i appreciate that point of view but i -- let's look at history. christopher columbus, francis drake, louis and clark, these people were funded by government. then the east india company shows up. then hudson bay company shows up. then the wells
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watching it all live for us from pasadena, california. he'll be there all weekend for that landing. thanks, john. >>> one of the nation's worst wildfire seasons on record. it is now oklahoma's turn. teen day it's governor is set to tour areas hit by the flames. wildfires in more than a dozen counties are prime to get worse from low humidity, high wind. you know about the 110 plus degree heat. so far flames have eaten through 60 plus buildings and forced evacuations. what's worse, investigators believe one of the wildfires is arson. >> initially they were looking for a man in a pickup truck. someone called seeing that man throwing wands of paper already lit out into pasteur. so they are still working to determine maybe who that man is. what those witnesses exactly saw. that is so unsettling for so many people here in oklahoma. we already knew the conditions were bad. the governor earned a statewide bern b burn ban. >> the wildfires is happening as oklahoma is under severe drought conditions. >>> if we could only get moisture from ernesto. that is one that may very well threaten the u
watching it all live for us from pasadena, california. he'll be there all weekend for that landing. thanks, john. >>> one of the nation's worst wildfire seasons on record. it is now oklahoma's turn. teen day it's governor is set to tour areas hit by the flames. wildfires in more than a dozen counties are prime to get worse from low humidity, high wind. you know about the 110 plus degree heat. so far flames have eaten through 60 plus buildings and forced evacuations. what's worse,...
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she was born in pasadena in 1912, and during world war two, worked for the o.s.s., the precursor to the c.i.a. then in 1949, while her husband was stationed in paris as a foreign service officer, she enrolled at the famed cordon bleu school of cooking. in 1961, she published the first of 18 books and the one that made her a national name. "mastering the art of french cooking" not only launched child as an author. it led to her first t.v. show, which debuted nationally on public television in 1963. >> welcome to "the french chef." i'm julia child. >> brown: in short order, she became a smash hit. there was no one else quite like her. >> you just have to have the courage of your convictions, particularly if its a loose mass. well, that didn't go very but you can always pick it up if you are alone in the kitchen. who is gng to see? >> brown: she was famous enough to be parodied on "saturday night live" >> welcome. i'm julia child and today we're going to make a holiday feast or les fetes d'holidaes. >> brown: even after child's death in 2004, meryl streep introduced her to a younger genera
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want to bring in john zarella from pasadena, california. could there be more drama and excitement? tell us why this camera didn't almost milwaukee it to mars. >> reporter: sure. we may get more images from that today. a couple of high resolution pictures, if nothing else. we should have that in about an hour and 15, hour and 20 minutes when the news conference begins here. i know it because i talked to mike mayland yesterday, the man who is responble, who created that camera. as you pointed out, we might never have seen these pictures. a few years ago, nasa, in an effort to cut costs from the mission said, look, we are not going to fly the descent imager. they had already spent a million dollars on it. mayland went to the phoenix project. there was extra money there for a descent imager they didn't use. he used that money and then put in the rest of his own money to finish the camera. here's what he had to say. >> so i paid for the camera. the phoenix project paid to put it on the msl rover. nasa headquarters said, okay, under those circumstances, do it. >> how much did it cost you
want to bring in john zarella from pasadena, california. could there be more drama and excitement? tell us why this camera didn't almost milwaukee it to mars. >> reporter: sure. we may get more images from that today. a couple of high resolution pictures, if nothing else. we should have that in about an hour and 15, hour and 20 minutes when the news conference begins here. i know it because i talked to mike mayland yesterday, the man who is responble, who created that camera. as you...
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john zarrella, cnn, jet propulsion lab at pasadena. >>> so you can follow curiosity on twitter @marscuriosity to track the latest pictures coming in from the mars' surface. that is all for us for this hour. i'm kate bolduan and newsroom i'm kate bolduan and newsroom international starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome, everyone, to newsroom international. i'm michael holmes in for suzanne malveaux once again and we will take you around the world as we do in 60 minutes. here is what is going on out there. [ gun fire ] >> rebels in syria pulling back. fierce air and ground attacks by the military in the city of aleppo forcing the anti-government fighters out of the neighborhood stronghold. for now, the rebels say it is a tactical withdrawal, and that reinforcements are already on the way. and meanwhile, the country has a new prime minister and former health minister who has been name named to replace the prime minister who you will remember defected to jordan four days ago to join the opposition. >>> a rescue team had just minutes of daylight to get a patient out of
john zarrella, cnn, jet propulsion lab at pasadena. >>> so you can follow curiosity on twitter @marscuriosity to track the latest pictures coming in from the mars' surface. that is all for us for this hour. i'm kate bolduan and newsroom i'm kate bolduan and newsroom international starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome, everyone, to newsroom international. i'm michael holmes in for suzanne malveaux once again and we will take you around the world as...
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bill: adam in pasadena. nasa is doing all this with a lot less money. they are spacing a cut of $59 billion in next year's budget. that translates, a budget cut for $360 million for the mars exploration program and human exploration program facing a cut of nearly $4 billion. heather: new questions being raised this morning about the relationship between egypt's fledgling government and israel after a deadly terrorist attack. this happened at a border crossing in sinai. authorities say islamist gunmen killed at least 15 egyptian guards before storming the check point. that attack was stopped but the incident is a test for egyptian president mohammed morsi is himself an islamist. can t mcfarland is a fox news security analyst. she joins us now with more insight. great to see you. >> thank you. heather: what does this attack mean for the region, let's begin there. >> this is hugely significant and really bad news. why is that? for 40 years the peace between israel and egypt has been kept because the sinai peninsula where these attacks were launched from ha
bill: adam in pasadena. nasa is doing all this with a lot less money. they are spacing a cut of $59 billion in next year's budget. that translates, a budget cut for $360 million for the mars exploration program and human exploration program facing a cut of nearly $4 billion. heather: new questions being raised this morning about the relationship between egypt's fledgling government and israel after a deadly terrorist attack. this happened at a border crossing in sinai. authorities say islamist...
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on the early hours monday and delivering fantastic pictures and of course, the jet propulsion lab in pasadena is so excited about this, and really the world is excited about this. it's not the end of the world as we know it, but definitely the future is now in this forever changing our world i'm sure as we get more information, and we will progress along to find out exactly what happens in space, and if we are the only ones here. chances are we are not, so get ready. >>> and it is hot and really hot and july was the hottest since record keeping began in 1885, and the weather is not taking the toll just on the crops. fish are dying by the tens of thousands. this is a section of the des moines river in southeast iowa. look at that, 58,000 fish have washed up on the shores of a 42-mile stretch of the river. joined now by fisheries biologist mark fleming who will tell us about this. mark, explain to us what is causing this unprecedented river fish kill in iowa. could there be long-term effects he here? >> the cause coming down to this essentially unprecedented heat that we are having has been goi
on the early hours monday and delivering fantastic pictures and of course, the jet propulsion lab in pasadena is so excited about this, and really the world is excited about this. it's not the end of the world as we know it, but definitely the future is now in this forever changing our world i'm sure as we get more information, and we will progress along to find out exactly what happens in space, and if we are the only ones here. chances are we are not, so get ready. >>> and it is hot...
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. >>> and we're still live from the jet propulsion lab in pasadena, california, bringing you all the new pictures from the mars rover curiosity. . design something totally original. do it again. that's good. kick out the committees. call in the engineers. call in the car guys. call in the nerds. build a prototype. mold it. shape it. love it. give it 40 mpg. no, 41. give it a huge display. give it a starting price under 16 grand. take it to the car shows. get a celebrity endorser. he's perfect. "i am?" yes, you are. making a groundbreaking car. it's that easy. ♪ who dreamed she could fly. like others who braved the sky before her, it took a mighty machine, and plain old ingenuity to go where no fifth grader had gone before. ♪ and she flew and she flew, into the sky and beyond. my name is annie and i'm the girl who dreamed she could fly. powered by intel core processors. ♪ ooo no. the hotel lost our reservation. nonsense! you book at travelocity, your reservation's guaranteed. well, i did not book with travelocity, okay?!? [ female announcer ] get the travelocity guarantee any wa
. >>> and we're still live from the jet propulsion lab in pasadena, california, bringing you all the new pictures from the mars rover curiosity. . design something totally original. do it again. that's good. kick out the committees. call in the engineers. call in the car guys. call in the nerds. build a prototype. mold it. shape it. love it. give it 40 mpg. no, 41. give it a huge display. give it a starting price under 16 grand. take it to the car shows. get a celebrity endorser. he's...
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to reporter john zarrella who's staying on top of e everything at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. so, john, they talked about the seven moments of terror, so to speak. why are they going over that again. >> yeah, fredricka. we hadn't heard about the landing and descent. they're still talking at this briefing because they're still all jazzed up by how well everything went and how well their calculations worked. in fact, they started off the press briefing by saying, you know what, we traveled more than 350 million miles to get to mars and we missed the entry target by less than one mile. that's pretty phenomenal when you think about it. they were, for all intents and purposes, right on track. then they began ticking off all of the different time lines throughout that descent and they actually brought up an enhanced image that was taken from the mars reconnaissance orbiter shown on the end of the parachute and they talk about how the parachute deployment took place right within the time line when they thought it would take place, how the parachute slowed them to just exactly what t
to reporter john zarrella who's staying on top of e everything at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. so, john, they talked about the seven moments of terror, so to speak. why are they going over that again. >> yeah, fredricka. we hadn't heard about the landing and descent. they're still talking at this briefing because they're still all jazzed up by how well everything went and how well their calculations worked. in fact, they started off the press briefing by saying, you know...
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john zarrella is on top of everything at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. what are we seeing here, john? >> well, don, let me bring you back here real quick before we show you the images again and tell you where we are getting those from and what they do back behind me, and you can see a model of curiosity and the mast there, and on either side of the masts are the circular cameras, ster stereocams and they are called navigation cameras, and they use those to navigate, and then the square cameras in the middle are the mast cameras. so, now, the pictures that they got today came from both of the different instruments, and now the nav cameras took the image that shows the deck of curiosity, and on top of the deck of curiosity, you will see all of the pebbles. they are trying to figure our and in fact, the entry and descent landing team now has a job the do to try to figure out how all of the pebbles got up there, and they think it of course happened when the rocket engines were fire on the descent stage as it was lowering curiosity to the ground and kicked up
john zarrella is on top of everything at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. what are we seeing here, john? >> well, don, let me bring you back here real quick before we show you the images again and tell you where we are getting those from and what they do back behind me, and you can see a model of curiosity and the mast there, and on either side of the masts are the circular cameras, ster stereocams and they are called navigation cameras, and they use those to navigate, and then...
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john zorella joins us from pasadena, california. he joins us with more pictures. >> reporter: one member of the science team said that it was like a gymnast the series of maneuvers that curiosity had to go through, that seven minutes of terror that we've all heard so much about hitting the martian atmosphere at 30,000 miles an hour and then the parachute deploying. a series of events from a sky crane lowered curiosity to the surface and then the three tethers had to be cut. and had any one of the events gone wrong, that would have been the end of the entire mission. right afterwards, nasa held a us in conference. everyone beaming here. and john holder, the president's white house science adviser talked about just how significant this was. >> landing the mars science laboratory rover curiosity on the surface of the red planet was by any measure the most challenging mission ever attempted in the history of robotic planetary exploration. and if anybody has been harboring doubts about the status of u.s. leadership in space, well, there'
john zorella joins us from pasadena, california. he joins us with more pictures. >> reporter: one member of the science team said that it was like a gymnast the series of maneuvers that curiosity had to go through, that seven minutes of terror that we've all heard so much about hitting the martian atmosphere at 30,000 miles an hour and then the parachute deploying. a series of events from a sky crane lowered curiosity to the surface and then the three tethers had to be cut. and had any...
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john zarrella is on the phone from pasadena. john, you're going to take us through thee pictures, i know that, and the video. also, engineers will have the another briefing. what will they say. >> reporter: we assume what her going to do is give us an indication of the first checkouts of curiosity. the scientists wanted to go through and make sure the systems are all working and that will take quite a while and they don't expect to do a lot of science until a couple of weeks until every system is checked out but they are going to continue to give us these terrific pictures. and those pictures that you've been showing, carol, the ones we are seeing now, the descent image camera. interesting story there. mike maylin, made the image and we kind of call him the mars photographer. he has put many cameras are mars missions. interesting story here. a few years ago when nasa was in the process of trying to save money for this mission, they cut the camera out of the mission and we would never have had these pictures, except maylin decide
john zarrella is on the phone from pasadena. john, you're going to take us through thee pictures, i know that, and the video. also, engineers will have the another briefing. what will they say. >> reporter: we assume what her going to do is give us an indication of the first checkouts of curiosity. the scientists wanted to go through and make sure the systems are all working and that will take quite a while and they don't expect to do a lot of science until a couple of weeks until every...
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we've got cnn's john zarrella in pasadena at the jet propulsion lab. to land curiosity, nasa used a parachute method that they weren't even able to test. i find this funny because they call this the seven minutes of terror, quote. is this the hardest part of the mission or are we expecting other potential pitfalls here? >> reporter: always potential pitfalls, brianna. the bottom line is, without question, that seven minutes of terror. they never attempted this kind of landing before. the vehicle, you can see a model behind me here is so big at 2,000 pounds, the size of a small car, they couldn't use the other methods they had done in the past, the tried and true methods, air bags opening, bouncing on the planet and deflating and these rovers coming out. this was just too big to do that. they had to go to this method where they would fly through the atmosphere, a parachute would deploy. then they would fire rockets, stabilize the vehicle, then a sky crane literally with tethers lowering the vehicle to the ground, everything had to work perfectly if any
we've got cnn's john zarrella in pasadena at the jet propulsion lab. to land curiosity, nasa used a parachute method that they weren't even able to test. i find this funny because they call this the seven minutes of terror, quote. is this the hardest part of the mission or are we expecting other potential pitfalls here? >> reporter: always potential pitfalls, brianna. the bottom line is, without question, that seven minutes of terror. they never attempted this kind of landing before. the...
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let's go to another caller, this time let's try our pasadena, maryland caller, david, democrat, hi there. caller: hi there, thank you. host: thank you for calling in. caller: kim just stole my thunder about disbursing and giving that money to that person and that person. your previous guest, when he challenged the caller to name one corporation that gave money, that's parsing the words. they give the money to a pac, the pac does their bidding. that's one thing. the other thing is, number two, he made a comment, who cares about the $2.50 done -- $250 donor. that was infuriating to me because i'm a $250 donor. that's the problem. no one cares about the $250 donor now with what's going on. and the other thing is complaining about that -- that romney caused the -- i distinctly remember romney saying i don't control the pacs, i can't coordinate that -- >> guest: and that's what happens. you've now got the ability of the candidate to distance himself from the negative ads because they're not allowed to coordinate. that's like the one rule is you're not allowed to coordinate with a superpac or
let's go to another caller, this time let's try our pasadena, maryland caller, david, democrat, hi there. caller: hi there, thank you. host: thank you for calling in. caller: kim just stole my thunder about disbursing and giving that money to that person and that person. your previous guest, when he challenged the caller to name one corporation that gave money, that's parsing the words. they give the money to a pac, the pac does their bidding. that's one thing. the other thing is, number two,...
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reporting from pasadena -- looking at a price tag, from cbs. a much-needed boost to nasa, which is debating whether it can afford another mars landing this decade. investing $2.5 billion, it is the priciest gamble yet. let's look at the nasa budget request for 2013. the toll will request is $17 billion and the price tag for the commercial crew and cargo program comes in around $830 million. lots of pictures, images, and stories in the news about this. a triumph for nasa and its engineers as the world watches. picture-perfect landing of a plutonium-powered role for -- rover. you can say nasa's staffers celebrating in "in the your times." and crowds stayed up in times square to watch. people could check it out and see. you can see the excitement of the folks watching in times square. also descriptions and diagrams of what exactly we are talking about as we talk about curiosity. here is "the financial times" breaking down exactly what the rover's dimensions are and what it looks like. you can see the hite, compared to a person. -- you conceding hi
reporting from pasadena -- looking at a price tag, from cbs. a much-needed boost to nasa, which is debating whether it can afford another mars landing this decade. investing $2.5 billion, it is the priciest gamble yet. let's look at the nasa budget request for 2013. the toll will request is $17 billion and the price tag for the commercial crew and cargo program comes in around $830 million. lots of pictures, images, and stories in the news about this. a triumph for nasa and its engineers as the...
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cnn's john zarrella is joining us once again from nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california, with the latest details. john, what's going on? >> reporter: you know, wolf, all the attention that curiosity is getting, it is certainly no doubt because of the tremendous pictures. in fact, more tremendous pictures came out today from these cameras up here, the navigation cameras, two on either side, the round ones, and those mass cams, the square cameras. and they showed us pictures of the deck of curiosity taken from above, looking down, showing all kinds of little pebbles and rocks on there. also, a panorama shot, a color panorama that came back in thumbnail of the whole surroundings around the rover. and of course, we hope to get full resolution pictures, perhaps as early as tomorrow. if you know what, through all of this curiosity is taking on a personality of its own. it may seem like the curiosity rover is your worst friend on twitter. just sending brag pictures from exotic places, me and my shad kind mount sharp, its operators tweeted on day one. now, it's begging for more
cnn's john zarrella is joining us once again from nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california, with the latest details. john, what's going on? >> reporter: you know, wolf, all the attention that curiosity is getting, it is certainly no doubt because of the tremendous pictures. in fact, more tremendous pictures came out today from these cameras up here, the navigation cameras, two on either side, the round ones, and those mass cams, the square cameras. and they showed us...
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. >> i'm with first baptist christian academy in pasadena. what effect is the euro crisis having on the u.s. economy and what would a centralized european fiscal policy, what effect would that have on the global economy? >> that is a -- you have about an hour? [laughter] well, the european situation is very difficult. the basic problem there is that like the states of the united states, they have a single monetary policy. there is one central bank, the european central bank, that makes monetary policy for all 17 nations in the eurozone. but unlike the states over the united states, they don't have one fiscal policy. each one has its own parliament, its own prime minister and own fiscal policy. it is as if in the united states, during a downturn, individual states know that the federal government is there to pay social security, to pay medicare, to provide defense, all of those broad government functions and each state and locality has to deal with the services that it provides. in europe, each country is basically responsible for its own fisc
. >> i'm with first baptist christian academy in pasadena. what effect is the euro crisis having on the u.s. economy and what would a centralized european fiscal policy, what effect would that have on the global economy? >> that is a -- you have about an hour? [laughter] well, the european situation is very difficult. the basic problem there is that like the states of the united states, they have a single monetary policy. there is one central bank, the european central bank, that...